Resources on Christianity & Culture
Resources on Christianity & Culture
Two-Kingdom
Brad Littlejohn. The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed (2017).
David VanDrunen. Living in God's Two Kingdoms: A Biblical Vision for Christianity and Culture (2010); Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms (); Politics After Christendom ().
Ryan C. McIlhenny, ed. Kingdoms Apart: Engaging the Two Kingdoms Perspective (2012).
Jonathon Beeke. "Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ’s Twofold Kingdom" in Reformed Theology. Studies in Reformed Theology, Volume 40 (2021).
D. G. Hart. A Secular Faith ().
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Transformationist/Kuyperian
Lectures on Calvinism (1898).
Peter Heslam. Creating a Christian Worldview
Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology (12 vols.).
Richard Mouw. Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction.
James Bratt. Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat.
Craig Bartholomew. Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction.
Luis Lugo, ed. Religion, Pluralism, and Public Life: Abraham Kuyper’s Legacy for the Twenty-First Century.
John Bolt. A Free Church, A Holy Nation: Abraham Kuyper’s American Public Theology.
Richard Mouw and Sanders Griffioen. Pluralisms and Horizons: An Essay in Christian Public Philosophy.
James Skillen. The Good of Politics: A Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Introduction.
David Koyzis. Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies.
James K. A. Smith, James K. A. Smith. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (2009).; Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology ().
General Cultural Issues
H. Richard Niebuhr. Christ and Culture (1975).
D. A. Carson. Christ and Culture Revisited (2012).
Carl F. H. Henry. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (2003).
William Edgar. Created and Creating: A Biblical Theology of Culture (2016).
John M. Frame, “Part Five: Christ and Culture,” in The Doctrine of the Christian Life (2008)
D. A. Carson, “Athens Revisited,” in Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns (2000)
Francis Schaeffer. How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976).
Stephen Presley. Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church (2024).
James Davison Hunter. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (2010); Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis (2024).
Dan Strange. "Not Ashamed! The Sufficiency of Scripture for Public Theology” in Themelios, vol 36 issue 2.
Brad Littlejohn. Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License (2025).
Rod Dreher. Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (2020); The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (2017).
Axe, et. al. The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe (2020).
Bauerlain, et. al. The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism (2016).
Craig Bartholomew. Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition: A Systematic Introduction (2017).
Richard Gamble. In Search of a City on a Hill
Beckwith & Koukl. Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air (1998).
Ken Myers. All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture (1989).
Neal Gabler. Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality (2000).
Brian Godawa. Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom & Discernment (2002).
David Brooks. On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004); Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2001).
Roger Lundin. The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World (1993).
Gene Edward Veith Jr. Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (1994).
Neil postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1986); Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1993).
Barry Hankins. Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, The Roaring Twenties and Today’s Culture Wars (2010).
Tim Keller. Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City (2012); Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City (2016).
Lesslie Newbigin. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society (1989); Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture (1986).
Advanced
Charles Taylor. A Secular Age (); Sources of the Self ().
Ernest Becker. The Denial of Death (1974).
Rieff. Triumph of the Therapeutic (); Freud: The Mind of the Moralist; Deathworks ().
Bellah. Habits of the Heart (); The Good Society ().